Statistically Significant

Two days ago, I received an unexpected email from an employee of a pharmaceutical company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  She was looking for a summer intern and had recently acquired my CV.  Yesterday, I spoke with her on the phone, and I was hired to work with her as an intern for the summer!  I’ll be performing statistical genetics analyses using R.

I’ll wait until the background checks are complete and the hire is official before revealing the name of the company, but this is incredible news.  I was thinking about it yesterday, and I really couldn’t ask for a better situation.  I really enjoyed living in Boston while attending BU (a fact that has been made even clearer by spending the last few weeks in South Florida), and I’ve loved the little time I’ve spent in Cambridge.  Statistical genetics is a field that’s very interesting to me, but the only real exposure I’ve had to it was in BS850 this past semester.  After two summers doing REUs, I was hoping to get some experience in Corporate America, especially at a pharmaceutical or biotech company.  And it’s even a paid position.  The best of all worlds, really.

Here’s the plan for the next few days: I fly up to North Carolina on Saturday, June 6, for a family reunion.  On Friday, June 12, I fly up to Boston for my first day of work on the 15th.  The position lasts until the end of August, at which point I can hopefully find something full-time in Boston or Cambridge for the rest of the year.  Hooray!